Sep 18-19 1980 in Arkansas a 9-megaton W53 nuclear warhead was ejected from it's Silo after a accident exploded the Missile.

B53 nuclear bomb was 9 megatons.

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Was Clinton there?

Who is actually holding the USA Nuclear Football? Trump handed complete authorization to the military to Bomb whoever they want, did he lateral the briefcase with the launch Codes? Is a un-elected Military Person now holding the power to kill almost everyone on earth?

bump for Nukes NOT being Used, and being Retired from being attached to switches to launch them.

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The REAL threat to America From Nuclear Weapons is already in America, it was BORN in the USA.

Thread: Global treaty banning nuclear weapons adopted at UN
Global treaty banning nuclear weapons adopted at UN
07/08/2017 03:27 AM

Not that anything the UN has ever done has stopped a single war.

Considering how many nukes and silos there were in US it is amazing a lot more incidents have not occurred?

Good work by those soldiers some who gave their lives to contain the situation.

OP though has questionable motives here since he suggests that NK should have nukes for some reason?

How so?

I worked on around a few DGs at nuke plants.

That was afew years ago tho.

The operators and the NRC overseers take that DG compliance and safety pretty seriously, from what I've seen over many years.

Thank goodness for that!

DGs (Diesel generators) are what keeps YOU alive in the event of a power-grid failure.

They keep the cooling/coolant flowing and going in the spent-fuel pools.

NOT "impossible" ... just statistically highly unlikely, which is VERY different from "impossible"

Explode a neutron bomb next to one of the bunkers storing nuclear weapons, including retired nuclear weapons, and you very well may be able to trigger one of the triggers on the stored nuclear weapons. Once one of those goes off inside a bunker with several other stored nuclear weapons it is anybody's guess as to how the other bombs stored in the same bunker would react ... my guess is that the fusion process would feed on itself for one or more of the other nuclear weapons.

The ONLY solution to that scenario is to store the triggers in an entirely different geographic location - say a couple of hundred yards away, or further ... but that doesn't work so well with our now miniaturized weapons and the need to be able to immediately load the nuclear weapons on their delivery vehicle in just 5 minutes or so.

WHAT HAPPENS when the diesel fuel runs out ... and because of either a war or disaster scenario no more deliveries of diesel fuel can happen?

Do they store enough diesel fuel ON SITE so that they NEVER need another delivery of it (ie: the reactor and cooling pools no longer need to be cooled)?

NOPE!!

This is the part that gave me the most goosebumps:

"It focused on the explosion, as well as other Broken Arrow incidents
during the Cold War."

Military Intelligence is a OXY Moron.

Ooo...something new to research.

Thanks, op. Gonna look for that movie, too.

So many things of significance are quickly forgotten.

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The Day After almost became true, who needs the Russians when you have people at the Pentagon.

Who needs North Korea or Iran, when you have the American Government only seconds from full out Nuclear Disaster.

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Same re-located warhead that was near Searcy Arkansas. The first silo in Arkansas. It killed 53 men in 1965. They call it Ghost site. That sucker was doomed from the get go.

and for his silence, bill clinton was given the keys to the clubhouse.

Thread: America Nukes Itself
America Nukes Itself
10/23/2017 07:34 AM

mistakes and accidents happen, that is why this is so wrong and dangerous.

Thread: Americas New Policy on the Use of it's Nuclear Weapons includes responding to NON Nuclear Attacks on America
Americas New Policy on the Use of it's Nuclear Weapons includes responding to NON Nuclear Attacks on America
02/02/2018 06:13 PM

I've watched it twice so far. They had young (18, 19yo) "kids" responsible for missile maintenance. One didn't follow procedure (forgot the torque wrench in the truck) and used a rachet or breaker bar instead. The detent was inop and the 14 lb socket fell off and fell idk 100 ft.

The Titan tanks are a "balloon" style tank where the tank is only 0.030" thick. It has no strength unless pressurized. This is to save weight. The skin of the rocket that you see exterior is the actual tank. Even when not filled with propellant, it has to be filled with Nitrogen to support itself, transport, etc.

It is so critical that when they move them pressurized, the trailer it is on has a nitrogen tank and or compressor and is followed along its route by a backup tank of nitrogen.

Without pressurization, the missile will collapse on itself standing uprigbt. Like a can of soda witj a drnt in the side with a 10lb weight on top.

The propellants are hypergolic. They instantly ignite on contact of one part with the other. I believe one was unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine. It is also super super super toxic. That's why they wear "moon suits" when handling.

The leak was a huge concern because if they lost pressure, the missile would collapse and definitely explode instead of maybe.

I've also heard there was silo ventilation that was not turned on on somebody's orders. The situation was not helped by the kids being so scared that they didn't volunteer what happened right away.

Martin Marietta, the manufacturer and 1/2 of Lockheed Martin now, advised an evacuate annd wait and see approach. Somebody defied orders to go back in, violating the '2 man rule' in the process to get more data and i think maybe save a guy. he was disciplined.

When the warhead was ejected, all agencies "could not confirm nor deny" the existance of a warhead. went on for days. i think theres a story about the Vice President (of the United States) asking the Secretary of Defense (i think) if there was a warhead. The Secretary said he "could not confirm nor deny". To the Vice President!

This "balloon" type tank is still in use in aerospace, namely the Centaur upper stage. It is very relevant because it had such high efficiency from the lightweight tanks and high thrust.

I tried watching. I was wondering how they managed to make a fuel leak seem exciting enough to make it movie material. Well, they didn't.

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I'd be more worried about fuel delivery to the generators. There are not many depots left with manual pumping systems, from what I understand.

I'm no engineer but I've got a question for you sir....

If a nuclear plant has a problem
that needs a diesele generator to power the cooling pumps...What's the one thing you are sure to have on hand?

Steam....So instead of a diesel generator why hasn't G.E.. or Westinghouse just designed a steam powered auxiliary power generator(turbine) built right into the existing pipework??

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That is EXACTLY the test they were running when Chernobyl blew up.

Not saying it's a bad idea.

Sympathetic detonation, in conventional explosives, does not require armed detonators. I don't know about nukes.